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Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton began his career in journalism at the ABC in 1963. He has been a war correspondent in Vietnam, ABC News bureau chief in Indonesia, a TV news and current affairs reporter, and then talk radio presenter in Sydney and London. A keen student of naval history, his next book, on Australia’s entry into the First World War, will be published this coming Spring.

Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton
You can see this happening: stung into action by the massacre in Connecticut and with nothing to lose in the final term of his presidency, Barack Obama throws the power and prestige of his office...

Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton
Justice Steven Rares of the Federal Court is no stranger to political rough and tumble. I recall him fondly as junior counsel on my defence team when Neville Wran sued me for defamation -...

Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton
Honestly, this media uproar about a few harmless student pranks at St John's is pathetic. It's the sort of grossly exaggerated rubbish you get all the time from left-wing journalists these days -...

Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton
The remarkable but so far unremarked thing about the Islamic riot was that the centre held. By which I mean that the great majority of Australians, whatever their religious or social beliefs, did not...

Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton

Mike Carlton
'Hundreds of thousands of Chinamen will tremble when they feel the iron fist of the German Empire heavy on their necks,'' wrote Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1897, busily carving off a chunk of China as a...